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Dr. Peter G. Traber, M.D., has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Galectin Therapeutics, Inc. (alternate name, Pro-Pharmaceuticals Inc.) since March 17, 2011 and serves as its Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Traber serves as the President Emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Traber served as an Acting Chief Medical Officer of Galectin Therapeutics, Inc. since June 15, 2010. Dr. Traber served as the President and Chief Executive Officer, Professor of ... Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine from March 2003 to November 2008. Prior to joining Baylor, Dr. Traber served as Senior Vice President for Clinical Development & Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Plc, where he was responsible for worldwide clinical development programs for its Phase II-IV portfolio. Before joining GSK's predecessor, SmithKline Beecham, in September 2000, Dr. Traber served as the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia. He served as Interim Dean for the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine since February 2000. He served as the Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School from July 1997 to February 2000. He also served as the Chief of Gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine from 1992 to 1997. He served as Director at Houston Branch at Federal Reserve Bank Of Dallas. He serves as a Director of Greater Houston Partnership. He has been a Director of Galectin Therapeutics, Inc. since February 12, 2009 and Neostem, Inc. since January 2015. He served as a Director of Tanox Inc., since March 23, 2004. He served on the faculty at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor from 1987 to 1992, where Dr. Traber helped build the research and clinical enterprise. Dr. Traber completed a fellowship in Gastroenterology Research at the University of Michigan Medical School and in 1997, he completed the Management Development Program for Physician Executives at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Traber received his M.D. from Wayne State Medical School in Detroit in 1981, and completed a Residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, where he also did a Fellowship in Gastroenterology. He earned B.S. in chemical engineering form the University of Michigan.

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